IT in GE Discussions

Krishna Keerthana Bolisetty 

RE: Discussion Chapter 15

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Visual Decision Support for Policy Making: Advancing Policy Analysis with Visualization

Info Tech in a Global Economy

Today's humanity's main priority is to align its environmental, cultural, and social needs to create a prosperous future for later generations. Politicians are the key players encouraging the nation to develop a sustainable strategy for this aim. The underlying mechanism can be entitled as the method of policy making.

New methodologies to support the planning activities in politics are born due to the rapid growth of ICT during the last decades. These technologies come from various areas of scientific research such as natural sciences, economics, sociology, or psychology. To order to understand the practical use on real world problems, computer scientists introduce hypotheses to applications.

 

With three main advantages visualizations can serve: 

1. They can be used for analysis of the output produced by ICT devices. 

2. They will allow the user to monitor the ICT tools visually interactively by adjusting parameters without understanding how the tools' algorithms work in Information that are not necessarily important to decision-making and

3. Within one interval, they can connect ICT tools from different domains the interface for digital visualization.

 

The stages listed for potential visualization help in the policy making phase are only examples to demonstrate the benefits in policy making by using information visualization and visual analytics techniques. The policy-making problems lie in combining more theoretical methods from various fields to make better choices for a sustainable future. Non-expert users should be able to gain intuitive access to these specific methods with the help of visualization techniques.

 

Conclusion:

With regard to optimization and decision support techniques, there are two stages that will be assisted by visualization techniques; the description of the optimization problem, and the performance analysis. Visualization techniques can be used for both stages to allow non-expert users to access the analytical tools without contacting, for example, complex solvers or underlying technical models. As far as social simulation is concerned, an agent-based simulation approach should be implemented. We defined three phases to be assisted by visualization techniques; the study of a questionnaire used to model agents, the setting of agent parameters and the environment and the analysis.

References:

Sidney, M. S. (2017). Policy formulation: design and tools. In Handbook of public policy analysis (pp. 105-114). Routledge.

 

Janssen, M., Wimmer, M. A., & Deljoo, A. (Eds.). (2015). Policy practice and digital science: Integrating complex systems, social simulation, and public administration in policy research (Vol. 10). Springer.

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